Lies and the lying liars

By tfk on October 4, 2006.

Attorney general misrepresented sex-crime case:

Atty. Gen. Phill Kline had nothing to do with a Sedgwick County case he has repeatedly used to defend an investigation that entangled him in a lengthy legal fight with two abortion clinics, the county’s top prosecutor said Monday.

Kline has pointed to the case of Robert A. Estrada, who pleaded no contest in July to nine criminal charges stemming from the rape and sexual abuse of two young girls.

…

Sedgwick County Dist. Atty. Nola Foulston, a Democrat, said no abortion records were involved in Estrada’s case, only records of live births involving the two girls.

“Kline had absolutely nothing to do with our case — nothing, zero,” she told The Associated Press on Monday.

Paul Morrison has enough courtroom experience that he doesn't have to lie to beef up his reputation. And he's smart enough not to want to violate patient privacy just to advance a political fight over abortion.

More like this

Surprise, surprise

Tiller didn't break law in reporting underage abortions: The Women's Health Care Services clinic in Wichita, operated by George Tiller, followed mandatory reporting laws for underage teenage sex in 15 abortions performed in 2003, Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston said today. The…

Witchhunt

Philll Kline to investigate AG Morrison's alleged improprieties. I must say that I don't see Kline's logic here. Morrison may well have done something wrong, and if so, his enemies' best move would be to sit back and let him fall apart on his own, and to force the Democratic governor to follow…

In the muck with Phill Kline

Last year, then-attorney general Phill (the extra 'l' is for "lascivious") Kline was sued over his interpretation of a state law. He claimed that a law requiring doctors and other counselors to report sexual abuse required them to inform his office of any sexual contact with a minor child, even if…

Kline's parting shot

Having been demoted to a county district attorney in no small part because of his panty-sniffing obsession with patient records from family planning clinics, Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline has decided that one of his final official acts will be charging Dr. George Tiller with 30 misdemeanor…

He had nothing to do with those cases, but he had everything to do with these ads.

http://hadourphill.blogspot.com/

The man is brilliant, so lay off.

Advertisment

Donate

ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. We are part of Science 2.0, a science education nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please make a tax-deductible donation if you value independent science communication, collaboration, participation, and open access.

You can also shop using Amazon Smile and though you pay nothing more we get a tiny something.

Science 2.0

Science Codex

More by this author

ID and the age of the earth

April 12, 2013

Disco. 'tute "research" director Casey Luskin is sad. Congressional Quarterly wrote about creationism and didn't say nice things about "intelligent design" creationism. Casey insists that ID shouldn't be lumped in with young earth creationism or geocentrism, asserting: the vast majority of leaders…

Polls and the line between truth and conspiracy theory

April 5, 2013

In the poll on conspiracy theories I mentioned a few days ago, I mostly focused on the item about vaccines, mentioning in passing the fact that Democrats (and liberals) bought into far fewer conspiracy theories than Republicans (or conservatives). I didn't point out that, of the "conspiracy…

Vaccines and the Republican War on Science

April 3, 2013

Ever since Chris Mooney's Republican War on Science was published in 2005, folks have been looking for a way to argue that Democrats are just as bad. The standard example for this counternarrative, one which Mooney even offered in his book, was vaccine denial – the claim that vaccines cause autism…

An evolution the GOP likes

April 2, 2013

"The president says that the jury's out on evolution. Here in New Jersey, we're counting on it." –Bruce Springsteen, May 21, 2005 "Folks in Dover [PA] aren't sure about evolution. Here in New Jersey, we're counting on it." –Bruce Springsteen, August, 2005 "This issue [marriage equality] is in a…

Social movements and science denial

April 1, 2013

The University of Notre Dame's Center for the Study of Social Movements is hosting a dialogue on science and politics, and I'm rather pleased with my contribution: "Will Climate Change Denial Inherit the Wind?" Do check out the other essays in the dialogue, especially Jeffrey Guhin's discussion of…